There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
Details: Her real name was "Mary Anne Evans" but she used a male pen name to ensure her works to be taken seriously.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
Details: Her real name was "Mary Anne Evans" but she used a male pen name to ensure her works to be taken seriously.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.
Details: Her real name was "Mary Anne Evans" but she used a male pen name to ensure her works to be taken seriously.